mike
Nerd, geek, neomaxizoomdweebie. And married!
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Posts by mike
VMworld 2011 – what a busy week
Sep 5th
I was in Las Vegas for VMworld 2011 this past week and what a busy week it was!
20,000+ people in attendance!
I met many amazing people, saw quite a few new products, I enjoyed it 100%.
vCloud Director 1.5 cannot upload files error
Sep 5th
Let’s say you have your vCloud Director cells behind a load balancer.
You try to upload your files (.iso and .ovf images for either a vApp or media and receive an error message like:
Error: Transferring files
On page 98 of the vdc_15_admin_guide.pdf you will find a paragraph pointing out that you need to fill in the API field for uploads to work.
During the initial configuration of each cloud cell, you specified an HTTP service IP address. By default, vCloud Director uses that address in the XML responses from the REST API and as the upload target for the transfer service (for uploading vApp templates and media). To use a different address, specify a public REST API base URL.
I had missed that in my new setup of vCloud Director 1.5 and a helpful VMware employee answered my questions in the Communities.
Install of vCloud Director 1.5 fails to set up ESXi 4.1U1 hosts
Sep 5th
According to the install documentation, VMware vSphere 4 ESX and ESXi 4.1 update 1 are supported.
Install or upgrade to vCloud Director 1.5 will fail with the following error when trying to add the provider vDC:
Could not retrieve state for sequence: seq_os
This is easily fixed by editing the database table [os_id] and inserting the relevant information.
Slimy marketing tactics are insulting
Aug 3rd
Isilon – makers of what look to be a very cool scale-out NAS solution just sent me an email.
Now, I was expecting their email, so this isn’t an issue of spam at all (in fact, when they scanned my badge at VMware Forum I commented that I would be watching for their email, and to be honest, I said it to every booth person doing scanning). I was excited to see the message because I want to talk to Isilon about their product.
My received email looks like this:
non-existent person used in email contact
I responded to the message stating that I would like to talk to her about budgetary pricing and how Isilon may work in my network.
My phone rang about 5-6 minutes after I sent my message out and a nice gentleman was on the phone from Isilon.
When I stated that I had sent an email to a Deborah and asked why I was getting a call back from him, he, honestly it seems, told me that there is no such person by the name of Deborah Levin in the company and that this is done to give some personality to the message.
He could have lied to me; told me that Deborah was busy and passed him the lead and I would have taken that at face value. Instead he (seemingly) told the truth, that Isilon (and EMC as their owners) do this through a third party email service provider (all headers in the email are Isilon headers).
But he didn’t lie, and for that I look forward to his email for later contact with him, if I can get the bad taste out of my mouth.
Pertinent headers:
Received: from mail01.info.isilon.com (unknown [204.92.21.14]) by smtpgrey-2.iphouse.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2064F3D7667 for <my-email>; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 11:56:26 -0500 (CDT)
Message-Id: <1b53bd039cbe4772a93c38749f6a68d4@1135>
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=”–boundary_10086078_b76909b6-4a0e-4dae-9655-32f63a61adcf”
Return-Path: sales@info.isilon.com
Received-Spf: None (mail.corp.iphouse.net: deborah.levin@isilon.com does not designate permitted sender hosts)
So there we have it…slimy marketing tricks.
vCloud Director Cluster got you down?
Apr 27th
vCloud Director – the VMware solution to building on-demand infrastructure for the enterprise and cloud computing…works.
But there are some trials you must encounter and complete before things work smoothly.
TL;DR: I failed at first but found the problem with the issue being firewall services blocking inter-cell communications. This post is about the log entry and how it isn’t very clear that there is an error to resolve.
